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Re: Regarding make command


From: Kristof Provost
Subject: Re: Regarding make command
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:02:51 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On 2007-07-26 15:02:16 (+0530), address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am finding difficulty in installing software.
> 
> The Makefiles inside the configuration refer to "${MAKE} -C src all" command.
> 
> So while executing the make command. I am getting the foll. Error
> 
>    make -C src all
> 
> Make: Unknown flag argument C.  Stop.
> 
> *** Error exit code 1
> 
> Stop.
> 
> After browsing through this error I came to know that GNU package has to be
> installed.
> 
> Kindly letme know whether is there any alternative for this command as I 
> don’t
> have GNU in the machine I am using.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ram

Hi,

The -C option is quite simple. It will just change directory 
and then run make (without -C of course).

You should be able to replace the command by the following:
cd src && ${MAKE} all

Kristof





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